I was afraid I'd have nothing to post today but I've made it in at the wire. I gave a drawing lesson today, which was great! But by the time I got home, made and ate dinner, the evening was pretty far gone. As I pondered what to work on, I have several things in progress, I decided to keep it simple and work on the paper flowers I drew and cut out last week. Once again, I pulled out my massive set of colored pencils and got to work. I was able to get two done tonight. These have been fun to work on. I've been trying to use a variety of colors/shades and play with the shading, blending, etc. I've been struggling a little with the wax build-up but I suspect it's that the paper is too smooth. This seems to be an issue for me when I choose to use colored pencils. I keep running into this wall. I need to play around with different papers (goodness knows I have a ton!) and see if I can find some that resists that buildup. I also want to play with some solvents to see if I can get the kind of blending I like with those. So much art to make, yet only so many waking hours in a day!